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Hacker News (Aug 2020)
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The Importance of Reliability Engineering
9 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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The Foreward to Michael Cohen's New Book
9 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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You're doing rubber duck debugging all wrong
9 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Earth Appears to Be Travelling Through the Debris of Ancient Supernovae
9 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Hackers Hijack Reddit Mod Accounts to Post Pro-Trump Messages
9 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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He Was Iran’s Homegrown Tech Star. The Guards Saw a Blackmail Opportunity
9 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Sweatpants Forever: How the Fashion Industry Collapsed
9 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Livetweets: Epic vs. Apple Court Hearing
9 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Gmail blocks access to custom “webview/browsers”
9 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Ask HN: Older friends being targeted by Google ads for funerals and cemeteries?
9 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Reddit ban users for upvoting certain posts/comments
9 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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A History of U.S. Foreign Policy from Z to Shining Z
9 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Teen mastermind of Twitter hack was involved in fatal home invasion, say police
9 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Building a recommendation engine inside Postgres with Python and Pandas
9 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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When Covid Subsided, Israel Reopened Its Schools. It Didn’t Go Well
9 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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A Princess Is Making Google Forget Her Drunken Rant About Killing Muslims
9 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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How Many People in the U.S. Are Hospitalized with Covid-19? Who Knows?
9 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Mercury Is Latest 3rd-Party Visual Basic Effort: 'Multiplatform VB++'
9 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Should the ICANN do something about domain squatting?
9 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Why is YouTube auto playing Trump's attack ads on the homepage?
9 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Hong Kong man reinfected with different strain of Covid-19
9 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Fairphone 3+, now with 48/16MP cameras and 40% recycled plastics
9 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Problem-Solving Techniques That Work for All Types of Challenges (2017)
9 points • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Ask HN: Are all analytics violating user privacy?
9 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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SpaceX now plans for 5M Starlink customers in US, up from 1M
9 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 – Low vs. Ultra Graphics Comparison
9 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine Tests Positive, Then Negative for Covid-19
9 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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We Analyzed 10M Pages. Here’s Where Most Fail with ADA and WCAG 2.1 Compliance
9 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Cells solve mazes and respond at a distance using attractant breakdown
9 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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No, People Aren’t Fleeing America’s Cities for the Suburbs
9 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Ask HN: What Stops You from Switching Remote US Only to Remote Same Time Zone?
9 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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How Silicon Valley chip pioneer MIPS landed in China
9 points • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Trying to build the ultimate handheld Raspberry Pi computer [video]
9 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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“What if when your mind wanders, an implant prods you back to the task at hand?”
9 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Gleam v0.11 Released
9 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Chadwick Boseman Has Died
9 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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New cars can stay in their lane–but might not stop for parked cars
9 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Ask HN: My tower defense game is almost ready to launch
9 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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The Walkman wasn't invented in Japan
9 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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The US Is Going into Hyperinflation
9 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Apple rejects Facebook app that tells users Apple takes 30% cut
9 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Love After Life: Richard Feynman’s Letter to His Departed Wife (2017)
9 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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The Software Inflation Rate in 2020: 2.2%
9 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Tencent: The Outsider
9 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Things I Hate About Your Resume (From a Lawyer)
9 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Halide (a language for fast, portable computation on images and tensors)
9 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Brutal Rules of Email Management
9 points • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Celebrating Black Creators in Tech
9 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Python or Clojure for Data Analysis?
9 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Instagram blocks Kamalaharris.info in private messages
9 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis
9 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Made in Hollywood, Censored by Beijing
9 points • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Scientists See Signs of Lasting Immunity to Covid-19, Even After Mild Infections
9 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Samsung’s new PCI 4 drives – up to 7000 MB/s
9 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Microsoft Edge Just Dropped These Brilliant New Features to Beat Chrome
9 points • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Ask HN: 3D Modeling Tools for Woodworking/Furniture?
9 points • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Generate random fake data and populate your application for easier development
9 points • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Building a command line tool to help with Google searches
9 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Trump Bans TikTok September 20
9 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Earthquake detection and early alerts, now on your Android phone
9 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Feline coronavirus drugs inhibit SARS-CoV-2 main protease
9 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Even Faster Mobile GPU Inference with OpenCL – The TensorFlow Blog
9 points • comment • aug 18, 2020
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100 days without Covid-19: how New Zealand got rid of a virus
9 points • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Why are true and false so large?
9 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Neuralink implant will require drilling into skull
9 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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New AI Dupes Humans into Believing Synthesized Sound Effects Are Real
9 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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NASA researchers track slowly splitting 'dent' in Earth's magnetic field
9 points • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Epic Games releases Fortnite for iOS build with direct payments, bypassing IAP
9 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Sink or Swim: Snobs, Bores and Triumphs at the Royal Society of Arts
9 points • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Fortune Surpasses $100B
9 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Mapped: The Anatomy of Land Use in the United States
9 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Morrison Shelter
9 points • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Amazon’s Constellation of 3,236 Satellites Has Astronomers Freaked Out
9 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Microsoft’s TikTok buyout would cover every Five Eyes nation other than the UK
9 points • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Fairphone users can buy new camera without replacing the phone itself
9 points • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Facebook’s old web design will disappear in September
9 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Total Household Debt Decreased in Q2 2020, Marking First Decline Since 2014
9 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Historian's Cookbook: We All Scream for Ice Cream (2018)
9 points • comment • aug 17, 2020
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Dutch Hackers Found a Simple Way to Mess with Traffic Lights
8 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Set Up a Pi-Hole Ad Blocking VPN Server on Google Cloud’s Always Free Usage Tier
8 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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How to take the perfect breath: Breathing properly could change your life
8 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Workflowy Support for Boards, with Recursion
8 points • comment • aug 09, 2020
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AWS Tagging Best Practices Part 2: Terraform and CloudFormation
8 points • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Confessions of a Xinjiang Camp Teacher
8 points • comment • aug 20, 2020
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Why does Google think the slowest animal is the sloth?
8 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Mr Process's Wild Ride
8 points • comment • aug 06, 2020
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The Russian Vaccine
8 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Nothing Works – Patreon CEO
8 points • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Looking for the vulture assist with Neolithic burials
8 points • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Shards of Truth
8 points • comment • aug 01, 2020
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YouTube choose you own adventure for young kids
8 points • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Coronavirus: Sweden's economy hit less hard by pandemic
8 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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The Commercial Satellite Imagery Business Model Is Broken
8 points • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Having Fun with Microsoft's IoC Container for .NET Core
8 points • comment • aug 21, 2020
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MP for Cambridge urges the UK government to buy ARM
8 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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U.S. Immigration Shutdown Imminent as Congress Talks Collapse
8 points • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Ask HN: Did Nate Silver End Up Listening to Nassim Taleb's Critique?
8 points • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Expository Programming (2006)
8 points • comment • aug 08, 2020
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CA court rules Amazon can be liable for defective goods sold on its marketplace
8 points • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Working from Home: Why the Office Will Never Be the Same
8 points • comment • aug 23, 2020